Charlie & Louise - The double lottery

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Movie
Original title Charlie & Louise - The double lottery
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1994
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK o.A.
Rod
Director Joseph Vilsmaier
script Stephan Reinhart, Klaus Richter
production Peter Zenk
music Norbert Jürgen Schneider
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Hannes Nikel
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Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film by director Joseph Vilsmaier from 1994. The literary film adaptation was based on the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner .

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The two twelve-year-old girls Charlotte Palfy and Louise Kröger meet on a language trip to Scotland and discover that they are twins who were separated shortly after their birth. Charlotte, the daughter of a variety composer , is cool, self-confident and cheeky, dresses accordingly and listens to techno music. Louise, who grows up with her mother, an advertising woman, wears more "old-fashioned" clothes, is shy and reserved, but conscientious and orderly.

Determined to play fate, the two switch roles - after the trip goes Louise Charlie to her father, who in Berlin's Kreuzberg district works as a composer, while Charlie as Louise to her mother to Hamburg travels that there in an advertising agency working is. The girls find that it is not as easy as they thought to bring their parents back together, especially since the mother wants to remarry. Only when the two of them drive back to Scotland do their parents get closer and realize that the girls can no longer be separated. They decide that Charlie and Louise should stay with their mother in Hamburg.

Shortly before leaving, however, Charlie puts a note in her father's pocket with his motto in life: "There are moments in life when you have to pull the emergency brake!" When he reads this note on the train shortly after leaving, he takes the request literally, brings the train to a standstill and returns to his family so as not to leave them again.

Reviews

"Director Vilsmaier, who is otherwise known for more serious subjects like» Stalingrad «or» Herbstmilch «, cleverly put the story into the present and turned it into a contemporary youth comedy."

- Frank Ehrlacher, moviemaster.de

“Much of the remarkable depth in Kästner's novel, his humor, his warmth of heart and irony fell by the wayside with Vilsmaier and silted up in the not particularly dense staging. On the other hand, the rather modestly dramatized ending in the novel is now much more full of effects. "

- Horst Peter Koll, film-dienst, No. 4, February 15, 1994

"Joseph Vilsmaier (" Autumn Milk ") brings Erich Kästner's famous children's book up to date. In contrast to Josef von Baky's adaptation from 1950, the director only uses the novel as a loose template, which he consciously expands to include modern components such as the pain of separation and the problem of divorce. Nevertheless, a warm children's film was made here - not just for children - that combines exuberant entertainment with depth. "

- video.de

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Awards

Charlie & Louise - The double lottery received a total of 4 awards. The producer Peter Zenk was awarded the Bavarian Producer Prize in 1995. The director Joseph Vilsmaier received the Starboy Prize at the Finnish Oulu International Children's Film Festival in 1994 and the Children's Jury Prize at the 1996 Chicago International Children's Film Festival in the USA. In addition, the film was recognized as the best feature film in 1995 at the German Goldener Spatz Children's Festival in Gera.

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